The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Wedding Dress Stress with Mari Pepin and Kenny Braasch

Episode Date: November 20, 2023

Ben and Ashley are having an after-party for one of Bachelor Nations newest newlyweds! Kenny Braasch and Mari Pepin are fresh from the aisle and ready to share every detail… the good and the bad! Find out how Mari reacted when she thought her wedding dress was spoiled for Kenny… by Lauren Zima! And hear what happened when the DJ played the wrong song during their first dance!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to the almost famous podcast, Mari and Kenny. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. You guys told us that you were going to have two weddings. We saw the one that happened in Puerto Rico this past weekend. When was the other? We haven't had it yet.

It's not in 20, it'll be in March of 2024 here in Chicago. That one's, we figured, more accessible for people to come to. So that one will have a lot more people. And, yeah, it's going to be a good time. You had like 65 guests this past weekend. Everything, everything looked so pretty. So tell us about, like, the inspiration behind it all. I think, well, you know, this is kind of a me question.

Yeah, as I was indirectly referring to you, Marry. I think I just. wanted it to be obviously very intimate with just 65 guests, mostly just our families. And our venue, I think, kind of lent itself to just like garden, very classic, classy vibes. So we kept it more on the traditional side in terms of the way we did it, but also the decor was like white and gold and greenery, just kind of playing off of what the venue already had to offer. Now, when we spoke last, Kenny, you were kind of, out of the loop on the wedding plans.

Did that increase over time, or were you able to somehow strategically navigate not planning? It decreased, I think, actually, over time. I got less involved. I had seen the venue. We were out in Puerto Rico, so that wasn't a surprise. But seeing everything else set up

and everything was, was like a surprise to me just as much as the guests, I think, pretty much, right? Wow. Are you going to have more say over the Chicago wedding? Because Puerto Rico is, you know, where Mari's from, and then Chicago is where Marie from. So it's kind of like you each have your own or not. Well, so Chicago's, the venue is where I work. So I'll be a little involved. And this one's more of like my speed.

We're doing like an 80s dance party, basically. so it's like a retro theme party and it's it's more something that I have a handle on rather than this other stuff but it was it was a good thing that I wasn't involved as much in Puerto Rico because everything was very beautiful and it would not have turned out that way if I tried to get involved it's a good way to look at it it's better if we're not involved now there let's dive into the details a little bit of this wedding there were some non-traditional things which I think are awesome. My wife just posted a reel of non-traditional things that we did at our wedding. We'll start out. I want to ask about you all getting married on Veterans Day. And I know

that has a meeting behind it for you all. Do you mind explaining that for us? Yeah. So 11-11 is obviously like an angel number. It's supposed to mean good luck and good things. Obviously, every time you see 11-11 on the clock, you're supposed to make a wish. I kiss it every single time. I kind of use it as prayer time, to be honest. Yes, yes. They're not just like frivolous wishes, but yeah. Ferviless wishes. But it's just supposed to be like good luck and good things.

So that obviously was a part of it. But also 11-11 is Veterans Day every year. And my dad is a 25-year Army veteran. He served in several different wars, was injured, and he's now retired. But unfortunately, a lot of the negativity associated with his time in the service, unfortunately really hits him hard specifically on Veterans Day that he remembers and looks back on all that he had gone through. So I thought that this might be a way for him to have a better association with Veterans Day and for him to look at it as like, oh no, it's not something sad.

This is the day that my daughter, you know, my oldest child, my first born, got married and that he got to get for that. So hopefully, you know, in the future, it will have more positive memories for him. That's absolutely amazing. Yeah, that's such an incredible thoughtful idea. Now, the other one I really wanted to touch on is you had Kenny's sister officiate the wedding. How did you ask her kind of how did you guys get to the point of saying, yes, I, it's such a big position, I feel like, to officiate a wedding. And Kenny's sister kind of got the nod. How'd that happen? Well, we were going to go that route from the beginning. We were going to have somebody officiate and my brother was already the best man and we were just trying to involve our family as

much as possible in the wedding so it made a lot of sense for my sister to jump in and do that basically you know and she was willing to do it we were grateful for that we actually had some wells actually helped out and gave us his notes and his he actually emailed me a bunch of stuff to pass along to my sister that it actually really helped a lot to be honest so I get for all the stuff that he used sort of for Joe and Serena's wedding and sort of like broke it all down so I actually made it a little easier for her because she was freaking out obviously it's a big undertaking you're like where do I start Ben and I have both officiated weddings and like I dreaded writing it for like four months and then of course it's the week of the wedding and i'm writing it but like it's fine as soon as

you get an outline and you really start at the keyboard it it rolls but it's just like it's such an intimidating undertaking anyway so you guys had a ceremony there you did like the whole i'm assuming you did the vow thing there so you're going to do a whole and the whole other set of vows because this is what we were wondering with chris harrison and lorenzima last weekend we're like you already did vows how are you going to do them again is one going to be the traditional vows and one written vows tell us tell us what you're doing no i think what we'll do um because we did have a lot of family and friends who couldn't come to puerto rico so we still want to do something that's kind of reminiscent of a ceremony but obviously much smaller scale um because like

you said we already did it so it's kind of strange to like redo it in a sense yeah so i think what will do is we'll play a video from our ceremony in Puerto Rico probably. And then that will be the lead into like introducing the couple and then we just party the rest of the night. So you're not going to walk down the aisle again? No. Oh, okay. No, no. Very casual on this one. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth. Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, last question really around the wedding. We do want to talk to you a little bit about what's going on in the Bachelor world. But we really want to celebrate the two of you because obviously this is a really beautiful moment. You know, you've been planning this for a while, Mari. We talked about it months ago, kind of this coming up. Obviously, you met on Paradise. You know, and you guys have, I felt like, tell me if I'm wrong, since Paradise, you two have really been a pretty clear, on a clear path

to get married. And this is something you're both excited for. Did the wedding in Puerto Rico live up to all your expectations? Like as you now sit back and you look, pack on that day. Can you just break it down kind of how it felt, what you expected, all the goodness of it? Yeah, it did. I think, you know, a lot of planning went into it, a lot of details, a lot of stress, if I'm being honest, but, you know, that's the nature of wedding planning. And to see it all, you know, culminate into this beautiful day with all of our closest family and friends there. Yeah, it definitely paid off. I think everything turned out pretty perfect. I mean, we had a couple little minor blunders happen, but nothing that was, you know, too detrimental.

It did rain a tiny bit the day of the ceremony. Apparently good luck. Yeah, yeah. Just before the ceremony, it was like a three-minute little shower and that it stopped. No, that's nothing. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, other than that, I would say everything pretty much went to plan. For me, it was, I thought it was fantastic.

Just the venue was perfect for the amount of people we had. And so it felt, obviously it was a small group, but it felt like it was very intimate. everybody was close together um and it was just like she said it was really just this was really about family for us this one and and in our very close friends so uh it was very perfect it was very non it didn't feel very wedding uh it was you know we did everything the dances everything happened right away uh the speeches happened during dinner everything and then it just kind I jumped into the music and stuff, and I just thought the wedding itself flowed very well. And, you know, it was just, I feel like everybody had a good time.

I hope they did. I don't know. I didn't check him with everybody yet since we got. I'm sure that this wedding had the most on brand Ashley Eye music. And so will the one in Chicago. And I'm like, that was a, that's a wedding. That is a wedding. So the music was, um, it was.

Actually, the DJ did a really good job. We, there was a lot of 80s music and then there was a lot of Latin music, basically. So, yeah, I was going to say it was probably a lot of Latin music, which is also the greatest party music. Well, Marie surprised pretty much all of us and had like a band show up. Or I don't know what you call it, but they, you explain that. It's called a batucada, which is like percussion instruments, pretty much. And it's a tradition to have them in Puerto Rican weddings.

And they showed up as a surprise. I didn't even tell Kenny that I had booked this. No one knew except for me in the planner. And yeah, they showed up. They start playing and bang in. And everybody had a great time. They got everybody back on the dance floor. It was a lot of fun.

So I'm really glad that I did that. That's so fun. Kenny, is there going to be a boy band? Like a boy band tribute at your other wedding? So the guys are going to be there as guests. So we're just going to have a DJ at the Chicago one doing like, like I said, it's going to be all 80s music. Okay.

So all the bands that I deal with are going to be there as guests. We didn't want anybody like working or anything that night. So no, no boy band. Oh, no boy band. Interesting. All right. Well, Ashley's so bum. She's like, well, you should reconsider that for your wedding.

You should have a boy van. When we get off the topic of the wedding, I do have one boy band question for Kenny. But Mari, how did you feel about Lauren? and Zima's dress being so similar to years the week before. Did you see those people magazine pictures and just have a meltdown? A little bit, yes. And I actually, when I saw it, I like audibly gasped. And Kenny was in the room and I was like, oh, and I literally started to say she has the same dress. And he was in the room. And I was like, oh, he's going to see these pictures. So let me not say that that's. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my good catch. Okay. Kenny, don't respond to this yet. You and I are going to have a conversation once they're done here. So I started to say that out loud. I'm like, oh, she can hear me. And I'm sure this is going to pop up on his feed.

Yeah, it was a little, a little disappointing. But, I mean, that's fine. I don't own the dress. It's not just mine. You know, she looks stunning too. And it was a different dress. It just looks very similar. And, but initially I did think it was the same exact dress because when I was

working with Justin Alexander to pick out my dress, they did mention Lauren Zima. And they said that she was going to wear Justin Alexander. So as soon as I saw it, I'm like, oh, my God, of course. Like, it has to be the same dress. But it wasn't. But yeah, she looked great. I think I looked great, too. You had a little lace.

I like your lace. Yes, I added a little something different. So the dress, it's quite a bit of a story. I initially was having something completely custom made. And if you know me, you know, I'm a little bit extra. I love all the bling, the glitter, you know, page and girl. Well, you know, your pageant girl, yeah. Yes.

So I had something like super unique over the top, really, really beautiful. And unfortunately, like, seven or eight weeks before the wedding, I found out that for reasons I won't get into, that that dress was just not going to happen anymore. So, yeah, I had to completely like scramble to find who's going to make my dress, like a new designer, like who. In eight weeks, it usually needs to be ordered six months in advance. Yeah. So you can imagine, I was completely freaking out.

And I'm like, oh, my gosh, what am I going to do? I don't have time. Like, I'm going to have to find something literally off the rack or something. but my good friend Anita, she owns Hote Bridal in Wisconsin, and I went through her. She hooked up with Justin Alexander, and they were like, oh, don't worry, we got you. Like, we'll get you a dress. So they literally saved me in like less than two months' time, thankfully. But yeah, it was a whole process.

I'll post eventually what my dress was supposed to look like, just so people can see it. But yeah, it was a... Could you get that for the Chicago wedding or something in line with that? Potentially. The only thing is, like, I wasn't planning on wearing, like, something super, super bright because it is more casual, more of a party. But I kind of feel like, man, I missed out on what I originally wanted. So maybe I will have to do it. Who cares?

It's your wedding day. Ken, it's time for you and I talk. Let's be honest. And I don't mean this to totally, like, get you in trouble. But if you were to see Lauren Zima's dress, if she were to show you. you it. And then she comes out and a dress at your wedding. Would you have any idea that it was anywhere close to the same dress? No. And I still haven't even looked at Lauren's dress. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I don't I don't remember it.

I don't understand it. You can't describe what her dress looks like right now? No, goodness, no. I can't either. I mean, no, I can't. Like, I know what her face looked like and like. Yeah, her soul and what the person I love look like. Yeah, I'm glad.

I'm glad the, like, here's the deal. I don't know if it's our role, Kenny. Now, somebody's going to get really upset about this. I think all the people there that really care about that stuff are going to notice and be like, wow, she looks gorgeous. Here's the thing I remember about my wife on our wedding day. She looked absolutely beautiful. I can remember looking at her and being absolutely shocked at just how gorgeous she looked

on that day. Could I tell you much of what was she wearing? No, I can't. If it weren't for pictures around the house and we have a lot of wedding photos around the house, then Jared probably couldn't recall it either. No. I mean, she walked down. I'll always remember.

obviously she came down with her dad and he was in his military uniform and you know I'll remember all of that but not what the dress particularly look like I think it's fair to admit man I just I I I say this only to hopefully take some stress like I remember those stressful times from my wife you know picking out the dress planning the dress and all those things I remember like we went to a wedding and this wedding had another like their first dance song with the dad was the same as Jessica's was going to be and she broke down in tears. I'm like, honey, I don't think it matters. Like, I really, I don't think anybody's going to even remember or say anything, but it mattered to her. And so it was a wild time of navigating conversations that I felt like, I don't

understand, but yet they were affecting her deeply. Yeah. No, I get, I do get that. I understand where she's coming around these things, but I mean, speaking of the first dance, they, they messed up our first song. They had, they played the wrong song at first. Did you stop them? So we stopped it and he started playing the little John song that we entered to, you know, which was. That sucks. You know, and then we stopped that. And then I went and talked to the DJ. I'm like, I called the timeout on the floor in front of everybody.

I said, I'll call everybody time out. And then we jumped into the father-daughter dance. And then I talked to the DJ. We got it straight about. And then we started over. that. Oh, isn't that great? That's just so frustrating. That would have frustrated me deeply, I think. Same bad. Same. I'm like, good thing you guys are apparently relaxed people because I would have been like, yeah. I mean, I think, I mean, in my head, I was definitely like, are you freaking

hitting me right now? Like, everyone's looking at me. Like, what am I supposed to do? But in, but like, you can't freak out in front of everybody either. So it's like, it's fine. It's going to pass in 10 minutes and then we're just going to party and drink and forget it happened. But yeah, definitely in my head, I was like, this, this can't be happening right now. That was the only thing that was kind of, that was messed up a little bit, really. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. So, and I get like, because we, the, he's in Puerto Rico, and it's not like we sat down and, like, had meetings. So he actually did a very good job considering that there was very little communication between us and him.

And it was kind of flowing through the planner. And they played a song that I think had the same title. is ours, but it wasn't the right song, so it got figured out. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin, so, like, it's not, like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

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and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program

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I was eight years old, and the Motown 25 special came on. And all the great Motown artists, Marvin, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Diana Raw. From Mary Mary to Jennifer Hudson, we did. get into the soul of the music and the purpose that drives it. Listen to Culture raises us on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Kurt Brown-Oller. And I am Scotty Landis, and we host Bananas, the Weird News Podcasts with wonderful guests like Whitney Cummings. And tackle the truly tough questions.

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Yeah, mine's brown-olar, but with an H. So it looks like brown-holler. Okay, that's, okay, yours might be worse. We can never get married. Yeah. Listen to this episode with Whitney Cummings and check out new episodes of bananas every Tuesday on the exactly right network. Listen to bananas on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Danielle Fischel.

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wedding. And I bet Marie's sitting there going, no, there was like 10 other things that went wrong that you have no idea about. I only know that because I've been in those shoes before. Now, as we kind of close up with you guys here, again, thanks for jumping on, you know, the week after the wedding. We got to talk about Paradise. So one of the things that we're breaking down in Paradise right now is that we don't feel, Ash, and I don't feel, like there is any couples that are right now as strong as you were on Paradise. You guys were obviously. You guys were obviously a very strong couple. We could see a future between the two of you. There was obviously a great connection going on and we were celebrating them. We enjoyed it. Right now in Paradise, we don't have

those couples that were necessarily like celebrating yet because we don't really know who's dating who and why they're dating each other. Do you two feel the same way or could you maybe teach Ashley and I what's going on behind the scenes that you think is actually, you know, building these strong relationships? I mean, I think you're right to an extent. I feel like there is so much flip-flopping. right now and it seems like it's kind of late in the season for that for people to not be a little bit more solid um however i will say i do think that aaron and eliza just because they off the bat you know had this strong connection and they kind of have coasted through up until now they had a little bit of drama recently obviously um but so did we so i feel like as long as

they had that connection built on early and they kind of had that foundation before the drama started happening that they'll be able to work through it yeah Yeah, that's the couple that we think probably has the best bet. They also, you're also, I mean, you're probably, there's a lot with Aaron and Eliza that you're not seeing probably that they're spending a lot of time together, too. That's not being shown, I would guess, right? Yeah, most likely. And in the Blake, uh, just thing, I'm not sure where that's going now.

It's like, it's like, it was like, it seemed like Blake was, uh, all for it. but I just don't see, yeah, Jess kind of, I don't know. Yeah, like you said, there's just, there's, yeah, like a lot of like flip-flopping right now and like you're not too sure, like, will they, won't they, are they are not they? Like, it's jumbled right now. There is a clear cut, like, oh, yeah, this is end game, that's end game. They've been together since the beginning. Yeah.

I have also, Kylie and Avin, like, they've been in the second. Yeah, they're second place. But they're not like, they haven't really shown much of that developing. In the episode that will air tonight that we are going to recap, they do. They say, I'm falling for you for the first time. Yeah. So we get a little bit more of them. We'll see.

We'll see. I'm not totally sold yet. I'm not sold. I'm not sold in engagement. But Kylie says she's down for one. All right. Before we let you go, my boy bang question for Kenny, what's your take on the whole in sync thing?

Did they do all this teasing for trolls? Did Britney's memoir ruin everything? What was the meme I saw was that now Justin has to get back with Insync and Tour to repair himself from 100%. It's like the only way of going about it now. No, like the solo tour that he planned on embarking on and then possibly an Insinct tour. No, like no. You have to flip-flop them. At this point, I mean, it'd be a shame for this not to happen at this point because.

they went through all the trouble like you just said it can't be just for the trolls movie i know could uh i just can't see it's rude it's so rude and jerry brings this up like weekly to me he's just like ashley i would be so pissed if i were you like i would be angry if i saw that all this just led to trolls and they faked you out the entire time he's more mad about it than i I agree because there was like teasers of like possible Super Bowl boy band Super Bowl

what now I'm amazing now we have Usher which is like fine but like come on but I really do think at this point that Justin out of all of them needs not even with the Brittany thing he needs a bounce back in general I think he does

the last couple the last album like with filthy I think was that the man of the woods was that the last one he put out? The man in the woods and it was like eight year um no it wasn't great six years ago and that tour didn't do very i went to that show he have a tour for that see i didn't even know that he toured that album and i went to it and it wasn't great um because the me you know that album wasn't great yeah no like we couldn't even i listened to that album maybe two or three

times through and i was like it's just never going to come to me it's never i'm never going to get it And I keep hearing, like, I know, like, Timberlands back involved and stuff. And the Nelly Fittato thing. Like, what are we, we were going to have a good new song out there. See, Kenny, Ben thinks I'm wacky. Kenny gets it. Something's going on. I mean, you just have, it has to at this point.

I think we'll see Lance when we're doing our weekend in L.A., Ben. And, you know, you'll find out with me if that means anything. It's always so, it's always so awkward for me. But Lance is so nice. to Ashley, but it's always so awkward for me when she really digs into this stuff because I'm like, I feel like this is, but he handles it so well. He's such a sweet man and he loves Ashley so much, but it's like she wants, she's going to just like bombard this dude. He's going to like walk in. She's going to be like, Lance, all right, let's talk. All right, what's going on? Tell me everything.

So kind. Anyway, well, Mari, you have a fun man to just talk about boy bands up with and I loved seeing you guys at the Jonas concert this summer. That was such a cute picture. Jonas was good Jonas was good They're my favorite They're of your age Grange you know And I was a little old

But like not too old Because Kevin's still older than me So if Kevin's still older than me Then I'm allowed to You know Exactly All right Mark and Kenny

We do celebrate your love So much here on the most famous podcast Thanks for coming on months ago again And kind of giving us the like teaser To what was happening And then congratulations on a beautiful wedding In Puerto Rico With another wedding coming up in March in Chicago

the two of you are a great example of what this show can do for good in terms of love and life and laughter and everything else in between. So, Mari and Kinney, thank you. We appreciate you. Yeah, you guys are just adorbs and so beautiful together.

Thank you, guys. Bye. Later. This has been another episode of the Almost Famous podcast. Again, congratulations to Marri and Kenny on a beautiful love story, one that we have gotten the witness and watch with our own eyes. It's always cool to see

these couples who meet on a beach now or on the show come around and get married and make this commitment. It's really fun for us here on the podcast and they've been great to us but coming on now twice in the last year. So, hey, with that, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. See you guys.

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